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Conservation groups, joined by former President Carter, had sued to reopen the case after a March ruling upheld an Interior Department deal for a road through a national wildlife refuge. [...]

Don Riepe pointed to the line on the wall five and a half feet above his kitchen floor. That was where floodwaters reached during Hurricane Sandy in 2012. His home, [...]

WAYANAD, India -- Armed only with a bamboo stick, Bijesh T.K. was part of a team looking for a tiger that had escaped from a wildlife sanctuary. But it was [...]

For almost two decades, the hulk of a never-finished hotel has marred an idyllic coastline in southern Spain. Its fate remains cloudy, but the lesson is clear: It's easier to [...]

Thousands of migratory cranes have died and more than half a million chickens have been culled as the country tries to contain a deadly bird virus. JERUSALEM -- Israel is [...]

JOHANNESBURG -- South African officials say game rangers killed three poachers in the past week in an escalation of armed incursions into South Africa's flagship wildlife reserve, where hundreds of [...]

FIGUEIRA DE CASTELO RODRIGO, Portugal -- On a rainy winter morning, Antonio Mnteiro and two colleagues were pushing and pulling an ailing, reluctant bull along a stony track in the [...]

MINERVA, N.Y. -- A 250-foot waterfall, one of the tallest in the Northeast, tumbles over giant slabs of marble. A chain of 13 crystalline lakes and ponds teems with bass [...]

NAIROBI, Kenya -- The lioness lay sleeping in the bed of a dark green pickup, her eyes covered with a soft blue cloth, as a veterinarian in camouflage stood over [...]

For generations, the islands of Jamaica Bay, the 26-square-mile natural sanctuary off the Brooklyn and Queens shoreline that is home to hundreds of species of migratory birds and marine life, [...]

The Galapagos Islands have been added to a list of endangered World Heritage sites maintained by the United Nations. The archipelago, home to a array of species that inspired Charles […]

The Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge, once one of North America's largest habitats for migratory birds, is gradually being expanded again. The 9,000-acre federally protected sanctuary in central New York, a […]

AS Southern California's experiment in balancing development with wildlife preservation approaches a critical juncture, another ambitious program may have turned the corner to success -- contrary to some recent expectations. […]

There is a spot, just one, where you can walk from New York City to New Jersey without getting your feet wet. But yesterday Mayor David N. Dinkins signed an […]

SIXTEEN rivers traverse the northern tier of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northeast Alaska, with faraway names like Sadlerochit, Jago and Okpilak. I chose the Aichilik for a kayak […]

THE skunk cabbages that dot the swampy sections of the Wallkill River flood plain were already as big as beach balls. Fiddlehead ferns, coveted by urban gourmets, were poised to […]

THE Great Meadows Marsh, one of the largest unprotected tidal marshes in Connecticut, straddles the Stratford-Bridgeport line, just off Long Island Sound. The marsh is a critical feeding and nesting […]

LEAD: The southern tip of the Indian subcontinent possesses an abundance of wildlife sanctuaries supporting some of the most colorful, exotic and awe-inspiring wildlife in the world. Three preserves in […]

LEAD: THE sky cleared just in time for the environmental specialists from the Soviet Union. The rain had been pouring in dismal gray sheets at the Mianus River Gorge Wildlife […]

LEAD: CONNECTICUT, which has less wildlife refuge land than any other state, would get a few hundred more acres under legislation considered last week by a House panel in Washington. […]

The Interior Department said today that it would close a polluted national wildlife refuge and cut off water to 42,000 acres of bountiful California farmland whose irrigation wastes were drained […]

THE entrance to Turkey Mountain Park, a 124-acre nature preserve in Yorktown, is marked by an unobtrusive wooden sign. Here, about a mile past a cluster of shopping centers and […]

LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: Contrary to R. H. Hodges (letter, Feb. 6), many Alaskans oppose the Interior Department's recommendation to allow oil exploration on the coastal plain […]

A new master plan for the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge seeks to protect it from the rapid development of bordering communities and decrease the likelihood of flooding in the […]

LEAD: A water quality board has approved a $24.6 million plan to remove from the Kesterson Wildlife Refuge soil contaminated with selenium, which has been linked to birth defects. A […]

A dwindling flock of California condors, one of the most spectacular and most endangered birds in America, forage here on the Hudson Ranch. Until recently, environmentalists and the Federal Government […]

LEAD: A NEW Audubon walking guide will both appeal to and inform Westchester residents who are hikers, bird watchers and nature lovers. The guide covers 26 places, among them Ward […]

LEAD: PLANS are in the final stages to establish a Cape May National Wildlife Refuge to protect the habitat of millions of birds. PLANS are in the final stages to […]

THIS year, some 90,000 tusks of African elephants are being exported to Asia for carving into figurines and jewelry. Conservationists, almost despite themselves, are cheering. Fearful about nature's prospects in […]

LEAD: Interior Secretary Manuel Lujan Jr. today announced the creation of a national wildlife refuge in South Florida to help preserve the Florida panther. Interior Secretary Manuel Lujan Jr. today […]